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Simply put, Reppler is a social media monitoring service designed to keep your social reputation clean and safe. It addresses three critical pillars of your social reputation — content, privacy and security. Read more »

Millions of applications are flooding the social media scene yearly, some are fun, others are valuable while only a few have the ability of shining through the bunch and making a lasting impression!
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No one can claim that things are going smooth around the world; with all the demonstrations, climate changes, unemployment problems and personal issues, each and every one of us has a full plate! However, we... Read more »

Welcome to another episode of Thoughtpick’s series of articles: Apps Using SM Brilliantly. We will again be looking into examples of tricks and methods that online games and applications are using to make... Read more »

We will again be looking into examples of tricks and methods that online games and applications are using to make the most of social media. In other words, what is making those apps as “spreadable” and... Read more »

People in Egypt today are hoping to organize a million man March, and the government has cracked down on all communications channels. They last internet server provider, the Noor Group, has went offline and... Read more »

We will again be looking into examples of tricks and methods that online games and applications are using to make the most of social media. In other words, what is making those apps as “spreadable” and... Read more »

Welcome to another episode of Thoughtpick’s series of articles: Apps Using SM Brilliantly. We will again be looking into examples of tricks and methods that online games and applications are using to make... Read more »

Kickstarter is one of the largest funding platforms on the web, on any given day you will find a variety of creative, exciting and sometimes downright bizarre projects trying to get funding on the website.... Read more »

We present to you a new flavor which comes in a combo form: a social media campaign which depends on a viral and spreadable application to attract its audience: Honda Takes Social Gaming for a Test Drive
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This new series of articles on Thoughtpick – Apps Using SM Brilliantly – investigates examples of tricks and methods that online games and applications are using to make the most of social media. In other words, what is making those apps as “spreadable” and “viral” as they are.

The Application:

Playfish is one of the world’s largest and fastest growing social games companies. The company combines creativity, innovation and originality to create games for friends to play together over social platforms such as Facebook. Playfish’s mission is to change the way people play games by providing more social and connected experiences.

Playfish’s EA Sports FIFA Superstars allows you to build your dream team by signing the world’s best football players to your club. Furthermore, it allows you to upkeep your training and customize your formation to work your way to the top.

In terms of statistics, it’s a hugely popular game and currently has an increasing number of 4,800,000+ monthly active users, just take a look at its fanpage!

FIFA Superstar

What They Did:

EA Sports FIFA Superstars was developed in a way to attract football fans to play by themselves and share their scores and achievements. More importantly, they also focused on the social media side of the equation by allowing, and evenencouraging, their users to challenge friends:

There is something lackluster about social check-in apps like FourSquare, Gowalla and Facebook Places. Whenever I tried to use or checkout one of those services, I was always thinking about how letting my friends know where I’ve been is not exciting enough for me to use it. This impression of those websites not providing me with a lot of incentive to maintain my accounts but a new service has popped up and it seems particularly intriguing with its marriage of social media and gaming; SCVNGR.

So what is SCVNGR?

SCVNGR at its core is a Social Game, it makes you look at the locations that you check-in from in an entirely different light. When you check-in from a location you will be able to choose from a variety of scavenger hunts or “treks”, they could ask for a specific word mentioned in a restaurants menu or to take a picture with a certain landmark. After completing each challenge you will earn points, badges and even real-world rewards for your efforts, never mind that boasting rights for pawning your friends. other users.

We will again be looking into examples of tricks and methods that online games and applications are using to make the most of social media. In other words, what is making those apps as “spreadable” and “viral” as they are.

We will again be looking into examples of tricks and methods that online games and applications are using to make the most of social media. In other words, what is making those apps as “spreadable” and “viral” as they are.
Today’s application is: Jib Jab.

We will again be looking into examples of tricks and methods that online games and applications are using to make the most of social media. In other words, what is making those apps as “spreadable” and “viral” as they are. Today's application is: wooga's Brain Buddies on Facebook.

Welcome to another episode of Thoughtpick’s series of articles: Apps Using SM Brilliantly. We will again be looking into examples of tricks and methods that online games and applications are using to make the most of social media. In other words, what is making those apps as “spreadable” and “viral” as they are. Today’s...

With more than 3 million iPads finding their hands into consumer hands, it had comfortably found a place for itself in the musical chairs game of consumer electronics. The way fans and consumers have reacted to the iPad defied critics who proclaimed that the device didn't fill a need, and it is simply an over sized iPod that could...

FrontierVille is the latest game from Zynga and it's make inroads in the Facebook gaming community and managed to add over 3.7 million user this past week alone. The Game took many of the elements that make other Zynga games addictive and put them together to create, arguably, their best game yet!

This series of articles on Thoughtpick – Apps Using SM Brilliantly – will be looking into examples of tricks and methods that online games & applications are using to make the most of social media. In other words, what is making those apps viral..

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